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Bluetooth Keyboards and limitations:

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As a disabled technophile, my relationship with Amazon (and to a lesser extent, Apple) can only be described as a love-and-hate affair.   That does not mean I love apple more than Amazon, quite the contrary, I use Amazon far more than Apple. Apple has made their iPhone 4S accessible to the visually impaired, and I have seen with my own eyes, how a blind person can overcome touch screen with mixture of voice feedback (Siri) and voice command. Google Android has achieved more or less same level of functionality, so, today’s high-end smart phones, Android, Apple or Windows (for the adventurous) should be accessible for most visually impaired people. What about Amazon Kindle? As far as the E-readers go, the most accessible model for visually impaired remains, Kindle Keyboard 3G. Released in 2010, (the 6” model has been discontinued in 2013, while the DX 9” model costs $299) it is both textile and affordable, and the Neo-speech TTS voice engine combined with voice navigation made